Contrary to fathers' rights propaganda, father perpetrators (along with stepdads and caretaker boyfrends) dominate the most vicious crimes against children: sexual assault, abusive head trauma, murder-suicides, crimes involving gun violence, and other similar forms of physically violent/fatal child abuse. And as more dads are providing child care (either because mom is working and can't find other care, or because dads are increasingly getting unsupervised visitation/custody through the family courts), more dads are are being found guilty of basic child abuse and neglect as well.

10/25/15 -Because of severe time constraints, we are no longer able to do regular updates at Dastardly Dads. We will occasionally post articles on general studies on child abuse/domestic violence, news pieces involving abusive fathers in custody/visitation situations. We wil also be updating the Killer Dads and Custody lists, while looking for a better, more accessible platform for the data.

7/11/16 - We started this blog on June 24, 2009--just over seven years. And like all good things, it's time to bring this project to a close. It has served its purpose. We have close to 10,500 postings regarding fathers and child abuse, with hundred of those cases being enabled by the family courts, social services, and others in authority. The documentation is clear. It is now time to stop documenting and put that energy into changing the situation that puts thousands of mothers and children at risk every day.

Thursday, October 10, 2013

Dad kills 6-year-old daughter in murder-suicide (Reno, Nevada)

I suspect the unemployed father had marital problems...Often these crimes are precipitated by Mom ending the relationship with a deadbeat abuser/control freak, so Dad murders the kids to get revenge and punish her. Dad is identified as ADAM ALEXANDER SCOTT.

The deaths of two people in Reno’s Caughlin Ranch were a murder-suicide involving a father and his 6-year-old daughter, police said Wednesday.

Reno police identified the father as Adam Alexander Scott, 46. The girl was not identified by name. They died Monday.

Scott was found with a gunshot wound to the head in the garage of a home in the 4900 block of Mountainshyre Road, police said. A suicide note was found in the southwest Reno residence.

Paramedics found the girl submerged in a bathtub, police said.

“While the cause of death for the father was apparent, the cause of death for the girl is still pending and will require toxicology and laboratory testing,” police said in a statement.

Police suspect Scott called emergency dispatch about his daughter’s apparent drowning before killing himself. Scott’s wife and son were at work and school at the time, an unidentified man made the call and no one else was found in the home, Reno police Sgt. Alan Salter said.

The contents of the suicide note were not disclosed.

“Content of the note was descriptive enough to come to a finding of murder-suicide,” Salter said.

Why Scott allegedly killed his daughter remains a mystery, and police are looking into his background to answer that question, Salter said.

REMSA and the Reno fire and police departments were called to the home at 2:35 p.m. Monday on a report of a drowning.

REMSA personnel arrived first and called out through an open front door, police said. When they received no answer, they entered.

They immediately began lifesaving efforts on the girl. Meanwhile, Reno firefighters continued a search for others who might have needed medical assistance, police said. That’s when they found Scott.